What do we see now? One trouble upon another?
Jesus calls this: All these are the beginning of sorrows. (Mt. 24:8) This comes before the Great Tribulation where the wrath of God is poured out upon this entire world because of the sins of the people of this world and the sins of the apostate churches which have cast away scripture in part to allow people in their congregations to go in the way of sin in their churches.
Judgments sent by God before the Great Tribulation.
Matthew 24:7 (For Jesus says:)
2 Timothy 3:13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
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Time in the sight of God is like this:
2 Peter 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
To God, "the last days" began with the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus.
The apostle John said:
1 John 2:18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
From then to the return of Jesus the wickedness of men would get worse and worse until the end of time and the return of Jesus and the wrath of God comes upon this world and finally God destroys this present heaven and earth with fire.
2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
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By our view of time it has been more than 2,000 years since Jesus was crucified and God raised HIM from the dead.
By God's view of time (a day as a thousand years), God might view this as 2 days. Also God can see 1,000 years as one day.
So when we look at the events and consider the period of "The beginning of sorrows", I would think we should include both World War I and World War II, for these were both "world wars" affecting the entire world.
Hitler looks very much like the description of one of the last kings in Daniel 11.
Daniel 11
4 And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven; and not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion which he ruled: for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others beside those.
One ruler is described as follows:
22 And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.
Hitler came speaking peace while he was planning for his war. He occupied nation after nation saying he was protecting them. He did greater evils than ever seen before in the killing of Jews and political hostages. For a time he ruled and then was broken and destroyed himself.
25 And he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south shall be stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army; but he shall not stand: for they shall forecast devices against him.
25 And he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south shall be stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army; but he shall not stand: for they shall forecast devices against him.
From the time I was born again, I have thought Adolph Hitler was a part of the end time destruction of the "Beginning of Sorrows".
Churches have taught that antichrist comes through governments of men but that is not what the Bible teaches us. The apostle John taught us that antichrist were already in their church group and there were "many" antichrists. (I John 2:18) This shows that antichrist is a spirit working in many men as the devil is a spirit working in many.
I John 4:3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
The end time apostasy in the church groups casts away certain scripture and sets up doctrines which approve sin in the congregation, especially in areas of divorce/remarriage and homosexual/lesbians.
Divorce/remarriage:
Matthew 5:32 But I (Jesus) say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
* If the woman is unfaithful, the husband may divorce her. But this is the only scriptural reason given in the New Testament Bible for a husband to divorce his wife.
* If the divorced woman remarries she will commit adultery.
* The man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
Homosexuals/lesbians:
Romans 1:26-28 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Fornication:
I Corinthians 6:15-16 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith HE, shall be one flesh.
18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith HE, shall be one flesh.
18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
The apostate churches cast aside doctrines of Christ from the Bible and set up their own doctrines which approve and permit various sins in their church groups.
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The beginning of sorrows:
I believe the following are parts of this:
💥 Wars: WWI and WWII covering most of the earth. (Now Russia wars again Ukrine.)
💥 Famines: Throughout Africa and South American nations
💥 Pestilences: Spanish Flu of WWI; Coronavirus covering the earth in 2020
💥 Earthquakes: The great earthquake of 2023 in Turkey and Syria killing 50,000 people an unheard of number.
I believe other "trumpets" which signal the coming of Jesus and the Wrath of God and the end of this world:
* The unusual waves of storms, one after another, in California today.
* Unseasonal tornadoes in southern USA in 2023.
* Fierceness of men all over this world: killing at random children in schools and people in other places.
Also God gave me a dream concerning people and nations failing to pay debts:
This was a recent dream, this year in the last few months:
January 12, 2023 In this dream, there was a big financial deficit. God showed me some people were failing to pay what they owed. When the deficit grew worse, the government and organizations took from the people one way or another: taxes, significant raise in prices of goods, and such.
I never think of money, having no debt of any kind and having some savings. But I awoke thinking of money and seeking wisdom, what to do?
In March, the banking failures began to surface.
If individuals paid what they owe everything would work out but in the dream I was shown that individuals will not pay what they owe.
And USA national debt is in billions of dollars.
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As we prepare for that which is to come upon this earth, I felt very strongly we should go through the Proverbs, setting a basis for seeking wisdom from God and correcting our own way by wisdom from God.
For things we have never before seen will happen and we need to call on God for our wisdom.
James 1:5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
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